FITCHET, a name used in some places for the weasel, which is also called the foumart.
These statements of the productive value of the foreign British fisheries may probably approach pretty nearly to the truth; but the reports of the home fisheries are too vague to afford any thing like an accurate estimate. If we should take the 120,000 tons of fish said to be imported annually into the metropolis, at the low average rate of threepence a pound, and allow for the rest of the consumption in the British empire only one half the quantity consumed in and exported from the capital, and half a million for the export produce of the herring and cod and ling fishery, we shall have the productive value of the whole as under:
| The Greenland and South Sea fisheries..... | L.1,800,000 |
| The Newfoundland fishery..... | 1,500,000 |
| The herring, cod, and ling ditto for exportation.. | 500,000 |
| The consumption of London and re-exportation 3,000,000 | |
| Ditto of the rest of Great Britain..... | 1,500,000 |
| L.8,300,000 |
As to the number of seamen, landmen, and boys employed in the fisheries, that is, on the water, they may be reckoned at about 120,000.